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Governor declares the day California Panda Day as ‘gentle and lovable’ Yun Chuan and Xin Bao make San Diego debut
California’s governor flew in for the young bears’ debut. Throngs of media gathered inside the zoo, while the city of San Diego warned of traffic jams ahead of the much-anticipated event on Thursday.
The San Diego zoo rolled out the red carpet for the first public showing of its newest residents: two giant pandas, the first to enter the US in two decades.

Beijing website asks for information about supposed ‘crimes’ of ‘secessionist’ current and past Taiwan officials
China’s government has called for people to denounce “diehard secessionists” and give information about their “criminal activities” as it intensifies its legal and rhetorical intimidation of Taiwan.
The Taiwan affairs office and ministry of public security this week launched new webpages with lists of 10 current and former officials in Taiwan who have been named as “diehard” separatists.

Former prime minister argues Australia has made itself a target by aligning with American ‘aggression’ towards China
Australia’s participation in the Aukus defence pact risks handing military control of the country to Washington and becoming the “51st state of the United States”, according to former prime minister Paul Keating.
Speaking on ABC’s 7.30 on Thursday night, Keating argued that Australia had made itself a target for aggression by in implicit opposition to China’s growing power in the Asia Pacific region.

Despite a declining birthrate that has alarmed the nation’s leaders, regulations in China prevent unmarried women from freezing their eggs.

The U.S. ambassador has criticized the handling of an attack on four instructors from an American college, but China’s foreign ministry called it an “isolated incident.”

The route, restored in June last year, will be ‘paused’ amid rising costs due to need to avoid Russian airspace
British Airways is to axe its direct flights between London Heathrow and Beijing.
The UK national carrier announced that the service to the Chinese capital would end on 26 October.

The U.S. sorely needs a coordinated national research strategy, says Marcia McNutt, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences ...

Tsung Dao Lee, who became the second youngest person to win a Nobel Prize in 1957 for overturning the law of conservation of parity, died on Sunday at 97 in San Francisco. Lee, a Columbia University professor emeritus,

Just one percent of broadcasters are Asian American men; one in four TV stations in top 20 markets have no Asian American women on air

Never before in our nation’s history have South Asian-American women played such prominent roles in presidential politics. To me, that's powerful.

On an epic trip, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken tried to reassure Asian leaders about American commitments. But China remains the enduring backyard behemoth.

Donald Trump could appoint the first Asian American or Pacific Islander to serve on the US Supreme Court, though that’s unlikely to be the motivating factor should he make the historic selection.